A German teen tried to drain an entire pond with water hoses after dropping his iPhone during a fishing trip, according to video from Broken News Daily.

The unidentified teen was with other members of an angling club and was not allowed by fellow fishermen to dive into the pond, so he returned hours later with an idea to drain the pond: use a pump and two water hoses to direct the water into a nearby toilet.

It didn't work. The toilet wasn't connected to the sewage system, so his efforts ended up flooding a parking lot.

"I knew the phone was probably dead but wanted to get the data card back with the numbers, pictures and videos of my friends," he said.

The teen now has to pay for damage to the toilet and the cleanup, the video says.